Artificial Intelligence

Zoom Acquiring Common Room

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 6, 2026

Zoom announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Common Room, an AI-native go-to-market intelligence platform. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Skymantics Wins $9.1 Million IRS Contract To Expand AI Synthetic Data Engine

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 6, 2026

Skymantics announced that it has won a three-year, $9.179 million task order from the Internal Revenue Service Chief Information Officer. The award covers Phase 5 of the Enterprise Systems Testing Simulation of the Nation Synthetic Data Engine project, known as SimoN.

Robot.com: Interview With Co-Founder & President Of Media Judah Longgrear About The Delivery Robot Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 6, 2026

Robot.com (formerly Kiwibot) is a company that uses artificial intelligence to operate a fleet of autonomous robots that handle tasks like campus food delivery, warehouse logistics, and out-of-home advertising. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Robot.com co-founder and President of Media Judah Longgrear to learn more.

Lunos AI: Interview With Founder & CEO Duncan Barrigan About The Virtual Coworker AI Agent Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 6, 2026

Lunos develops AI agents that act as virtual coworkers for business finance teams, automating the tedious, day-to-day work of accounts receivable, such as tracking payments, following up on overdue invoices, and handling customer correspondence in a human-like, personalized manner. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Lunos founder and CEO Duncan Barrigan to learn more.

TwelveLabs Raises $100 Million Series B To Build Video Superintelligence

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 5, 2026

TwelveLabs announced that it has raised $100 million in Series B funding. The round was co-led by NEA and NAVER Ventures, with participation from Amazon, Radical Ventures, Korea Investment Partners, Index Ventures, Quadrille Capital, and Red Bull Ventures.

EquiLibre Raises Series A At $500+ Million Valuation To Scale AI Trading Agents

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 5, 2026

EquiLibre Technologies announced the closing of its Series A funding round at a valuation of more than $500 million. The round was led by Creandum, and the company plans to use the capital to scale compute infrastructure, expand into more markets, and grow its team of researchers and engineers.

Edge226 Acquires AnyClip To Expand AI-Powered Cross-Channel Performance Marketing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 4, 2026

Edge226 announced it has acquired AnyClip, an AI-powered video intelligence company built for media companies and publishers.

LinqAlpha Raises $22 Million Series A To Build Alpha Intelligence Layer For Global Public Markets

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 4, 2026

LinqAlpha announced it has raised $22 million in Series A funding to build what it describes as the Alpha Intelligence Layer for global public markets. The funding round was anchored by AVP, Atinum Investment, and GFT Ventures. And the round also included participation from a global syndicate of strategic financial institutions and venture platforms.

KredosAi Raises $7 Million Series A To Expand Enterprise Revenue Recovery Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 4, 2026

KredosAi announced it has raised $7 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-powered collections platform for enterprise revenue recovery. The oversubscribed funding round was led by BMW i Ventures. New investors Motley Fool Ventures and Walter Ventures also joined the round, along with existing investors Okapi Venture Capital, StartFast Ventures, SaaS Ventures, and Stout Street Capital.

Kling AI Raises $2.8 Billion To Expand AI Video Business

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 4, 2026

Kuaishou Technology’s Kling AI has raised about $2.8 billion from a group of investors to expand its AI video operations. The financing values the AI video business at about $15 billion on a pre-money basis.

Kaltura: Interview With CTO Dr. Alan Bekker About The Video Experience Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 4, 2026

Kaltura provides a cloud-based Video Experience Platform that allows enterprises, educational institutions, and media companies to create, manage, deliver, and monetize live and on-demand video. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Kaltura CTO Dr. Alan Bekker to learn more.

Brookfield And Bloom Energy Expand AI Infrastructure Partnership To $25 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 3, 2026

Bloom Energy and Brookfield announced the expansion of their strategic partnership as Brookfield increases its framework to finance power projects for AI infrastructure. The framework has increased from the previously announced $5 billion to $25 billion, representing a fivefold expansion since October 2025.

geoSurge Raises $12 Million Seed Round To Advance AI Visibility Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 3, 2026

geoSurge announced an oversubscribed $12 million Seed round. The financing was led by AlbionVC and included participation from Play Ventures, Octopus Ventures, Celero Ventures, Boost Capital, existing investors Passion Capital and Tuesday Capital, and angel investors from Google DeepMind, Microsoft AI, and Signal AI.

Poindexter Labs: Interview With Founder & CEO Jocelyn D’Arcy About The Expert Reasoning Data Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 3, 2026

Poindexter Labs is an expert reasoning data company building high-fidelity training data for frontier AI models using an academic peer-review model rather than factory workflows. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Poindexter Labs founder and CEO Jocelyn D’Arcy to learn more.

Thunkable: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Arun Saigal About The No-Code App Development Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 3, 2026

Thunkable is a no-code app development platform that empowers anyone to design, develop, and publish custom, native mobile applications for iOS and Android without writing a single line of code. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Thunkable co-founder and CEO Arun Saigal to learn more.

Microsoft Launches Frontier Company With $2.5 Billion AI Engineering Investment

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 3, 2026

Microsoft announced the launch of Microsoft Frontier Company, a new operating business focused on helping enterprise customers deploy AI systems at scale while protecting their proprietary data, workflows, and intellectual property.

Amazon AWS Invests $1 Billion To Embed AI Forward Deployed Engineers With Customers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 3, 2026

Amazon AWS announced a $1 billion investment to create a dedicated AWS Forward Deployed Engineering organization. The new organization will embed AWS engineers directly with customer teams to co-develop and deploy agentic AI solutions.

CarbonSix Raises $40 Million Series A To Deploy Physical AI Across Global Manufacturing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 2, 2026

CarbonSix announced it has raised $40 million, or about KRW 60 billion, in Series A funding to deploy Physical AI across the manufacturing sector. The funding round was co-led by DSC Investment and LB Investment. New investors in the round included IMM Investment, Korea Development Bank, SV Investment, Cortentia, and ASQ. And all existing seed investors — including Foothill Ventures, Storm Ventures, Zeitgeist Capital, Xquared, and CarbonBlack Fund — participated with follow-on investments.

Vestmark Opens Center For AI Research And Development In Boston

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 2, 2026

Vestmark announced the opening of the Vestmark Center for AI Research and Development, known as the CARD, a new Boston-based center focused on developing AI-enabled and software solutions for the wealth management industry.

Tripo AI Raises Over $150 Million In Series A3 Financing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 2, 2026

Tripo AI announced that it has completed a Series A3 financing round, raising over $150 million. The funding round included participation from a broad group of strategic and financial investors spanning the automotive, gaming, internet, and technology sectors.

TaxStatus Launches Planning Observations To Turn Tax Records Into Advisory Opportunities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 2, 2026

TaxStatus announced the launch of Planning Observations, a new capability that automatically identifies timely advice opportunities and advice gaps from a client’s tax records. TaxStatus is a provider of IRS-sourced financial data for financial advisors and CPAs.

Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 5

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 2, 2026

Anthropic announced the launch of Claude Sonnet 5. Claude Sonnet 5 is designed to be Anthropic’s most agentic Sonnet model yet. The company said the model can make plans, use tools such as browsers and terminals, and run autonomously at a level that previously required larger, more expensive models.

University Of Sydney And IBM Researchers Identify Pathway To High-Fidelity Quantum Computing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 2, 2026

Researchers from the University of Sydney, working with IBM, identified and quantified key factors limiting the performance of quantum computers and demonstrated ways to reduce their impact.